Improv A Voice Per Body
Take a strong physical posture — hunched and heavy, puffed and proud, coiled and quick — and let a voice fall out of it without deciding one in advance. Speak a few lines as that body, then change posture and let a new voice arrive. The body leads, the voice follows, never the other way round. Character voices invented in the head come out as cartoons — a funny accent bolted onto nothing. Found in the body, they come out true, because a real voice is shaped by a real physicality: the heavy man rumbles, the anxious one clips his words. This links voice to body so your characters sound like someone, not like a bit.
🎓 Notes for the teacher
Let the body pick the voice, not the reverse. Decide the voice first and you'll perform a cartoon — change the posture and trust whatever sound wants to come out.
Spotted a mistake, a missing variant, a better way to run it? Change it.